November 2022 issue contents - Feature
Sicilian produce merchants in Ohio and Pennsylvania had an edge
By Justin Cascio
"In 1912, Salvatore Arrigo was quite literally the picture of Italian organized crime in America. A full-length portrait of the fruit dealer illustrated an article in McClure’s, a popular muckraker, titled, 'Imported Crime: The Story of the Camorra in America.' Arrigo (1844-1922) was just released from the U.S. Peniteniary at Leavenworth, Kansas, after serving a four-year sentence for conspiracy to use the federal postal service to extort. In 1908, Arrigo had been the head of a dangerous 'Black Hand' extortion ring with members from coast to coast in America and back in his native Sicily..."
Book page count: Sixteen pages, including two pages of notes and seven images.
Magazine page count: Eight and a half pages, including one page of notes and seven images.
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